Title: Examining media discourses of diversity and ‘indoctrination’: Public perceptions of the intended screening of Gayby Baby in schools
Abstract: This chapter examines the discourses employed by digital citizens as they engaged in online newspaper and social media commentary regarding the intended showing of Gayby Baby, a documentary following the lives of four children growing up with same-sex parents, in an Australian government school. The analysis draws on scholarship by Tiffany Jones to map discourses of diversity and 'indoctrination'. As such, it offers nuanced understandings of some of the discourses employed in public debates relating to the representation of sexual diversity and sexuality diverse families in schools. Additionally, the methodology employed in this chapter offers educational researchers an approach as to how they might make sense of the broad range of discourses circulating in a context of increasing online public commentary in order to talk back to public resistances to their research and opposition to inclusion of diverse sexualities in education.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-12-07
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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